Word Meanings - NERVOSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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• NERVIMOTION
  The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. Dunglison.
• NERVELESSNESS
  The state of being nerveless.
• NERVOMUSCULAR
  Of or pertaining to both nerves and muscles; of the nature of nerves and muscles; as, nervomuscular energy.
• NERVELESS
  1. Destitute of nerves. 2. Destitute of strength or of courage; wanting vigor; weak; powerless. A kingless people for a nerveless state. Byron. Awaking, all nerveless, from an ugly dream. Hawthorne.
• NERVOSITY
  Nervousness.
• NERVOUSLY
  In a nervous manner.
• NERVOSE
  See NERVED
• NERVATION
  The arrangement of nerves and veins, especially those of leaves; neuration. The outlines of the fronds of ferns, and their nervation, are frail characters if employed alone for the determination of existing genera. J. D. Hooker.
• NERVED
  Having nerves, or simple and parallel ribs or veins. Gray. (more info) 1. Having nerves of a special character; as, weak-nerved.
• NERVINE
  Having the quality of acting upon or affecting the nerves; quieting nervous excitement. -- n.
• NERVOUS
  1. possessing nerve; sinewy; strong; vigorous. "Nervous arms." Pope. 2. Possessing or manifesting vigor of mind; characterized by strength in sentiment or style; forcible; spirited; as, a nervous writer. 3. Of or pertaining to the nerves; seated
• NERVY
  Strong; sinewy. "His nervy knees." Keats.
• NERVIMOTOR
  Any agent capable of causing nervimotion. Dunglison.
• NERVURE
  One of the nerves of leaves.
• NERVOUSNESS
  State or quality of being nervous.
• NERVE-SHAKEN
  Affected by a tremor, or by a nervous disease; weakened; overcome by some violent influence or sensation; shoked.
• NERVE
  One of the whitish and elastic bundles of fibers, with the accompanying tissues, which transmit nervous impulses between nerve centers and various parts of the animal body. Note: An ordinary nerve is made up of several bundles of nerve fibers, each
• NERVATE
  Nerved.
• INNERVATION
  Special activity excited in any part of the nervous system or in any organ of sense or motion; the nervous influence necessary for the maintenance of life,and the functions of the various organs. (more info) 1. The act of innerving or stimulating.
• ENERVATION
  1. The act of weakening, or reducing strength. 2. The state of being weakened; effeminacy. Bacon.
• MINERVA
  The goddess of wisdom, of war, of the arts and sciences, of poetry, and of spinning and weaving; -- identified with the Grecian Pallas Athene.
• UNNERVATE
  Enervate.
• UNNERVE
  To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to unnerve the arm. Unequal match'd, . . . The unnerved father falls. Shak.
• ENERVE
  To weaken; to enervate. Milton.
• ENERVATIVE
  Having power, or a tendency, to enervate; weakening.
• QUINTUPLE-NERVED; QUINTUPLE-RIBBED
  The same as Quinquenerved.
• RECTINERVED
  Having the veins or nerves straight; -- said of leaves.
• TRINERVE; TRINERVED
  See TRINERVATE
• ENERVATE
  To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of. A man . . . enervated by licentiousness. Macaulay. And rhyme began t' enervate poetry. Dryden. Syn. -- To weaken;
• RETINERVED
  Having reticulated veins.